Information about Sustainable Transportation

Green Car Club

Tour de Sol

Green Vehicles on the Market

Educational Materials

Workshops for Educators

Sustainable Transportation Links

Recommended Books

Sustainable Transportation Links

National Environmental and Transportation Organizations

• American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy ACEEE is a leader in efforts to improve the energy efficiency of cars and trucks. We conduct engineering and economic studies of the potential for efficiency improvement and provide advice regarding the development of programs and policies to realize this potential in the market. We advocate a balanced set of measures, including stronger Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards, federal and state incentives for greener vehicles, and consumer education and other market creation initiatives, as well as research and development of advanced technologies.
  
• Conservation Law Foundation Political & Legal advocacy on public transit policy.
  
• Earth Day Campaigns You can sign up to receive a short, convenient, daily e-mail news summary, "The Daily Grist."
  
• Ecology Center Auto Project
  
• Environmental Defense This national environmental advocacy organization does work on many environmental issues, including air pollution and global warming. TheirElectricity Label Generator shows you how your electricity is produced and how much pollution is created in the process.  Website includes a lot of environmental news.
  
• The Environmental Working Group Lobbying and policy group in D.C.
  
• Friends of the Earth
  
• Natural Resources Defense Council One of NRDC¹s overall program focuses is air/energy and they address clean air standards, global warming, transportation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric utility restructuring. Their website include useful background information.
  
• Public Citizen
  
• State PIRGs Public Interest Research Group
  
• U.S. PIRG Online
  
• Redefining Progress Institute Public policy organization that encourages accurate market prices to protect our common social and natural assets and to foster social and economic sustainability.
  
• Sierra Club
  
• Surface Transportation Policy Project This project pulls together excellent information and resources from many groups interested in transportation policies that conserve energy, protect aesthetic quality, promote social equity, and make communities more livable. Their website include an extensive directory of links to other transportation sites, include state-specific sites.
  
• Union of Concerned Scientists UCS has strong advocacy and research programs on renewable energy, global warming, and advanced vehicle technologies. Their website includes much readable background information on these topics.
  
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute
  An independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems. A variety of free resources to help improve transportation planning and policy analysis.
  
• Worldwatch Institute

Passenger Rail Advocacy

• National Association of RR Passengers Washington DC Lobby group
  
• Links to state rail advocacy groups
  
• United Rail Passenger Alliance Think tank and lobby group for restructuring Amtrak.  Advocates the matrix theory: increasing train service means an exponential increase in destination pairs, thus ridership income increases faster than costs, leading to eventual profitability.
  
• Train Riders Northeast Passenger train advocacy group. Has been spearheading returns of trains to Maine.

Transit Advocacy

• Advanced Transit Association Promotes "advanced transit technologies and strategies" -  monorails and personal rapid transit, etc.
  
• American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Industry Group.
  
• Association for Public Transit Boston-based.
  
• The Centre for Sustainable Transportation Leadership in achieving sustainable transportation in Canada.
  
• Community Transportation Association Organization supporting para-transit (wheelchair vans for seniors, etc).
  
• Conservation Law Foundation
  
• European Federation for Transport and Environment
  
• Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Promotes environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide. ITDP was organized by leading advocates for sustainable transport in the US who realized that the US was exporting its model of automobile dependence to developing countries.
  
• International Association of Public Transit Professional and Industry group.
  
• Modern Transit Society California based.
  
• Sustran The Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia & the Pacific.

Fighting Sprawl

• Sprawlwatch.org Accessible tools, strategies and best practices to manage growth.
  
• Sprawlbusters From our own Greenfield, MA is this site & consulting group on opposing big box stores like Wal-Mart.
  
• Sierra Club's Stop Sprawl Campaign
  
• Vermont Public Interest Research Group Public policy advocacy on sprawl.

Transit Oriented Development

• Active Living By Design is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a part of the UNC School of Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The program will establish and evaluate innovative approaches to increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies.
  
• America Walks A national coalition of walking advocacy groups dedicated to promoting . livable communities where people walk because it's a real choice. Walkable Communities Inc.
  
• Carfree cities Web-site for the book of this name. Information on Car-free urban planning. Quarterly newsletter.
  
• Congress for New Urbanism Promotes New Urbanist design principles in architecture and planning. (Turning car space to higher density, sustainable mixed-use space).
  
• Ecocity Builders Non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding our cities as 'ecocities.' Has organized local depaving projects and conferences.
  
• The Priorities Institute Education & research on sustainable land use planning and livable, civil, fun, economically viable carfree city design.
  
• SmartGrowth Network News, Information and best practice sharing.

Anti-Car Organizations

• CarBusters Quarterly magazine and international resource center for the car-free movement, with a focus on activism.
  
• Critical Mass Hub Organizes mass bike ride demonstrations at rush hour.  Excellent site with a lot of bicycling and activist information.
  
• Culture Change Magazine Founded in 1988 (as Fossil Fuels Policy Action) by an energy analyst who published the Lundberg Letter on oil industry trends.  Goal of halting road building.
  
• Dieoff.org Massive collection of information on what happens when we run out of oil.